‘I am not what I am’: How does Shakespeare present the notions of disguise and deception in Twelfth Night? The majority of Shakespeare’s comedies include disguises‚ which in itself entails deception. Shakespeare’s intention for deception was primarily for humour for example‚ Measure for Measure and As You Like It. In TWELFTH NIGHT the deception is based on the disguise which causes mistaken gender identity (Viola disguising herself to survive)‚ inappropriate love affiliations (Olivia/Cesario)
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and think love is easy‚ but again love proves them wrong‚ which hurts them in the process. In William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy‚ Twelfth Night‚ Orsino demonstrates the theme of unrequited love may hurt‚ but there is someone who loves you even if you don’t see it. Even if someone is hurt‚ they may miss that someone else loves them. Love occurs often in Twelfth Night. Shakespeare uses Orsino to show the common occurrence of love. Orsino loves Olivia‚ but she blocks herself away from the world‚ which
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the Shakespearean comedy that makes it distinctive than Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories. On of the features is the comedy through the language. Reading through the play twelfth night‚ I noticed that it is filled with metaphors‚ funny insults‚ and clever word play. The name of the play is a metaphor itself. Twelfth night is a holiday in which things are said to be turned upside down‚ like the events of the play. “If the music be food of love‚ play on‚” is the very fist line of the play. This
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“Nothing that is so is so‚” states the fool Feste while looking at Viola’s twin brother Sebastian‚ a double for Cesario (IV.i.9). This singular quotes embodies the idea that gender identity is fictional in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare‚ and that homoerotic desires are natural to the human body and mentality. Throughout this play‚ many characters are introduced to having homoerotic desires: Orsino for Viola dressed as Cesario‚ Sebastian for Antonio‚ and Olivia for Viola dressed as Cesario.
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The “dark side of life” that William Shakespeare exposes in his play‚ Twelfth Night‚ is the danger in the individual’s willingness to abandon the intrinsic self as a means to better realize a goal. The characters Viola‚ Feste‚ and Malvolio‚ in assuming new persona’s‚ engage in a metaphysical betrayal in which they deny the reality of their nature. Viola’s choice to serve Duke Orsino as a page in hopes of finding her brother is by no means unethical‚ and her efforts are ultimately successful‚ but
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The comedies Twelfth Night and Some Like It Hot both use deception through appearance as a comedic device. Through this theme of deceit the film Some Like It Hot directed by Billy Wilder is shown to be a natural descendant to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In both works deception through appearance is shown multiple ways in both the main stories and the subplots. The most obvious case of deception through appearance is the cross dressing that happens in both stories. Vilola dresses up as a man in
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Shakespeare wrote “Twelfth Night” around the middle of his career‚ probably in the year 1601. It was first published in the first Folio in 1623‚ where it is placed next to the last of the comedies. Most critics consider
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value of women and how the relative devaluing of women shaped sexual desire and normal gender roles. In this paper‚ I will attempt to illuminate several features of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that have bearing on human desire. Before identifying significant features of Shakespeare’s plays in general and Twelfth Night in particular that have bearing on the question of gender roles and the shaping of desire‚ it will important to remind ourselves about the cultural limitations for women of sixteenth
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Brie Adelstein Honors English Mr. McNulty 2 November 2016 Feminism in Twelfth Night Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night drastically changed the way people viewed men and women in the Elizabethan age. For decades‚ women have been perceived as “emotional (irrational)‚ weak‚ nurturing‚ and submissive” while men have been viewed as “rational‚ strong‚ protective‚ and decisive” (Feminist 84). In contrast‚ Viola‚ Lady Olivia‚ and Maria are powerful characters in the play who challenge the era’s scientific
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reference to Twelfth Night during Shakespeare’s own lifetime is to a performance on February 2‚ 1602. A law student named John Manningham wrote in his diary about a feast he attended at the Middle Temple in London where he was a law student and where “we had a play called Twelfth Night; Or‚ What You Will." This was likely to have been an early performance since it is generally agreed that the play was probably written in 1601. In 1954 Sir Leslie Hotson’s book‚ The First Night of Twelfth Night‚ sought
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